Rossendale planning committee

Councillor Matt Norton

Member, Development Control Committee

Seen at planning committee from September 2025 to October 2026

  • 73%attendance
  • 33decisions at their meetings

As at 6 October 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Rossendale’s published minutes, Councillor Matt Norton attended 8 of the 11 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from September 2025 to October 2026. The committee decided 33 applications at those meetings. The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote on them.

Meetings attended
8 of 1173%
Meetings whose minutes list them as present, sending apologies or absent. Minutes that list only those present cannot show an absence.
Decisions at their meetings
33
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
Declared interests
0
Decisions on which the minutes record them declaring an interest.

Voting record

The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote at these meetings, so no vote is counted for Norton and no voting chart is drawn.

Attendance

73%

8 of 11 meetings whose minutes list them; apologies for 3.

The typical member of this committee attended 82% (the median of 6 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

Each square is a meeting whose minutes list them, oldest first.

PresentApologies
20252026

Development Control Committee: 8 meetings

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
6 Oct 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
1 Sep 2026Development Control CommitteeApologies
23 Jun 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
19 May 2026Development Control CommitteeApologies
14 Apr 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
3 Mar 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
20 Jan 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
8 Dec 2025Development Control CommitteePresent
18 Nov 2025Development Control CommitteeApologies
7 Oct 2025Development Control CommitteePresent
2 Sep 2025Development Control CommitteePresent

Decisions

Every application decided at a meeting they sat on, newest first, with their vote where the minutes give it.

Their vote
Outcome

In the minutes

What the minutes record Norton moving, seconding, asking or saying on each decision, in the minutes’ own words. Passages that name more than one councillor, or a member of the public, are left out.

The minutes we hold do not quote this councillor by name.

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Rossendale’s published planning committee minutes, 11 meetings from September 2025 to October 2026. A councillor is matched across meetings by the council’s own member number where it has one, otherwise by full name.

Each vote shows how it is known. Named in the minutes: the minutes, or the council’s own recorded vote, list each member with their vote. From the count and the names: the minutes give the numbers and name the members in the minority, and every member present is known. All members present in favour: the minutes say every member voted for it and the members present are known. No vote against recorded: the minutes record the decision with no vote against, no abstention and no count, at a council whose minutes print a divided vote when there is one, so each member present is counted for. Unanimous vote: the minutes call the decision unanimous, or give a count with no one against and no one abstaining, and each member present is counted for. From the meeting recording: the vote was heard on the council’s recording of the meeting and closes exactly with the members present. Where none of these holds, the vote is left as “Not recorded” and is not counted.

Votes are on the resolution the committee passed, so a vote for is a vote with the majority. A vote is a decision on the application in front of the committee, not a statement of the councillor’s views. A percentage is shown only with five or more votes, decisions or meetings behind it.

Source: Plota analysis of the council’s minutes. The party is the one they were elected for, from Democracy Club’s open election results.

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